here to give us his take is jimmy carter's national security adviser. what should president obama do with syria as it continues its slow-motion drift into chaos? >> i don't know. and i'm not being evasive. i literally don't know. we have to have better intelligence. who's really fighting assad? who started the fight? how is it financed? where did the initial weaponry for the beginning of that struggle a year ago or so originate? there doesn't seem to be any clarity on it. secondly, what are the objectives of those who are really doing the fighting? for example, the suicide bombing in damascus, is that the work of the so-called more democratic groups that we would like to see in charge? doesn't that smack of certain forms of extremist terror that's associated with extreme groups? >> would you intervene militarily? >> well, i would intervene militarily if i knew that something has to be desperately prevented or if i knew that the effort would not produce a regional war and would produce a desirable political outcome, and at this stage, i don't see much ev